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Message 450466 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:22:19 UTC

I have a 2MB broadband connection, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 1MB right now. I can't figure it out. Who's stealing my bandwidth?

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Message 450470 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:25:21 UTC - in response to Message 450466.  

I wish it was me - I cap out at 640KB/s...
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Message 450473 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:26:38 UTC - in response to Message 450466.  

I have a 2MB broadband connection, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 1MB right now. I can't figure it out. Who's stealing my bandwidth?


I blame either God or Chuck. I'll get back to you when I have figured out which of the two it really is. (Misfit goes scott free on this one, lol.)
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Message 450475 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:31:00 UTC - in response to Message 450466.  

I have a 2MB broadband connection, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 1MB right now. I can't figure it out. Who's stealing my bandwidth?

I swear it's not me..unless your wireless network is called NELLIP..and that's only sometimes when mine goes poop....
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Message 450481 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:35:27 UTC - in response to Message 450479.  

It's all about your contention ratio.

http://www.getonlinebroadband.com/faqs/faq02.html


I contest the existence of this so-called contention radio.
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Message 450483 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:37:41 UTC - in response to Message 450479.  

It could also be that sysctl's TCP send/receive windows have been automagically reset to 32/128 KB...

Just guessing wildly.
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Message 450484 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:38:22 UTC - in response to Message 450475.  

I have a 2MB broadband connection, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 1MB right now. I can't figure it out. Who's stealing my bandwidth?

I swear it's not me..unless your wireless network is called NELLIP..and that's only sometimes when mine goes poop....

I only thought about that yesterday, realizing it was unsecured. "It was my neighbors!" I thought. They're doing all their ebay an' stuff on my bandwidth! So I applied a WEP key to my broadband router and spent half the night trying to get my wireless laptop to connect. BUT! I'm still at half pace. Who's tapping into to it, or is it leaking away?

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Message 450485 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:39:17 UTC - in response to Message 450479.  

It's all about your contention ratio.

http://www.getonlinebroadband.com/faqs/faq02.html

It's not ADSL, it's broadband

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Message 450486 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:40:09 UTC - in response to Message 450485.  

It's all about your contention ratio.

http://www.getonlinebroadband.com/faqs/faq02.html

It's not ADSL, it's broadband

I thought ADSL was Broadband?
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Message 450487 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:40:56 UTC - in response to Message 450483.  
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It could also be that sysctl's TCP send/receive windows have been automagically reset to 32/128 KB...

Just guessing wildly.

Thanks for the guess, but I've used pcpitstop.moc to check it previously, and now it's falling below 1MB.

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Message 450488 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:41:45 UTC - in response to Message 450486.  

It's all about your contention ratio.

http://www.getonlinebroadband.com/faqs/faq02.html

It's not ADSL, it's broadband

I thought ADSL was Broadband?

Yes it is, sorry, I meant cable as opposed to telephone line.

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Message 450490 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:46:06 UTC - in response to Message 450486.  
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It's not ADSL, it's broadband
I thought ADSL was Broadband?
ADSL is a kind of broadband.

Is there a repeater station in the WiFi setup? Those suckers tend to slug things down pretty massively.

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Message 450492 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:47:59 UTC

probably something BT are mucking with
they had managed to get my 8 meg connection down 29.3 k till i kicked up with my isp

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Message 450494 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:51:31 UTC

I hear them there cigarette ashes ken get kawt in ur compooter fan n sloe things dawn?
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Message 450501 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 19:54:22 UTC - in response to Message 450494.  
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I hear them there cigarette ashes ken get kawt in ur compooter fan n sloe things dawn?
Only the mechanical parts. The electronics just act happier...

Actually, are you using any torrent apps? ISPs might throttle you if you're uploading more than what you're downloading.
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Message 450558 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 20:31:37 UTC - in response to Message 450501.  

Actually, are you using any torrent apps? ISPs might throttle you if you're uploading more than what you're downloading.

Oh, now that could be a possibility although I haven't used my torrent app much lately. However, I've been uploading all my SETI@home and SETI beta from a little collection of PC's - that couldn't be doing it, could it? Being penalized for uploading my results? Surely not.

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Message 450563 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 20:33:57 UTC - in response to Message 450558.  

Actually, are you using any torrent apps? ISPs might throttle you if you're uploading more than what you're downloading.

Oh, now that could be a possibility although I haven't used my torrent app much lately. However, I've been uploading all my SETI@home and SETI beta from a little collection of PC's - that couldn't be doing it, could it? Being penalized for uploading my results? Surely not.


I would think using torrents would be dragging you down much more than Boincing. I think.
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Message 450574 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 20:41:52 UTC

Unless you're sending a whole smörgåsbord of WUs back simultaneously, it shouldn't be enough to trigger the throttling... :-/

I think this'll be the Mystery of the Day.
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Message 450575 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 20:43:05 UTC - in response to Message 450574.  

Unless you're sending a whole smörgåsbord of WUs back simultaneously, it shouldn't be enough to trigger the throttling... :-/

I think this'll be the Mystery of the Day.


But, but ... I already made a mystery thread!
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Message 450578 - Posted: 4 Nov 2006, 20:44:43 UTC - in response to Message 450575.  
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...and solved it (apparently).

Maybe the modem's overheating?
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